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The Puerto Princesa Subterranean River flows more than eight kilometres through a limestone cave straight into the sea.
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Palawan, Philippines · Asia
External reference (site language): Palawan ↗
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Carved into the Cordillera by hand, the Ifugao terraces are still farmed by the descendants of their builders.
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Banaue, Philippines · Asia
External reference (site language): Banaue Rice Terraces ↗
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Kazakhstan covers 2.7 million square kilometres without a coastline, larger than all of Western Europe.
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Kazakhstan · Asia
External reference (site language): Outline of Kazakhstan ↗
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The world's oldest and largest operational spaceport sits on Kazakh steppe and is leased to Russia.
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan · Asia
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Uzbekistan is one of only two countries surrounded entirely by other landlocked countries, the other being Liechtenstein.
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Uzbekistan · Asia
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Samarkand's Registan square was the commercial and intellectual heart of Timur's empire in the 15th century.
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Samarkand, Uzbekistan · Asia
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A gas field collapse near Darvaza was set alight decades ago and the Door to Hell has been burning ever since.
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Darvaza, Turkmenistan · Asia
External reference (site language): Darvaza gas crater ↗
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Over 90 percent of Kyrgyzstan lies above 1,500 metres, and summer pastures are still reached on horseback.
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Kyrgyzstan · Asia
External reference (site language): Kyrgyzstan ↗
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The Pamir Highway crosses the Ak-Baital pass at 4,655 metres, one of the highest paved roads on Earth.
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Pamir Highway, Tajikistan · Asia
External reference (site language): M41 highway ↗
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Band-e Amir's six lakes are dammed by natural travertine walls and glow a deep mineral blue.
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Band-e Amir, Afghanistan · Asia
External reference (site language): Economy of Afghanistan ↗
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Yazd's badgir wind catchers funnel breeze down into homes and over underground water, cooling rooms without electricity.
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Yazd, Iran · Asia
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The ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire was destroyed by fire in 330 BC, which ironically baked and preserved its clay archives.
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Persepolis, Iran · Asia
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Uruk and Ur in southern Iraq were among the first true cities, and the world's earliest writing appears there around 3200 BC.
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Mesopotamia, Iraq · Asia
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The Nabataeans cut Petra's facades directly into sandstone cliffs and engineered a water system that supported thousands in the desert.
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Petra, Jordan · Asia
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We ran the length of the platform and made it with four seconds to spare. A salaryman already inside held the door with his briefcase, then bowed slightly, and neither of us mentioned it for the next forty minutes.
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Kyoto, Japan · Asia
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The Dead Sea surface falls around a metre each year as the Jordan River is diverted, exposing sinkholes along the shore.
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Dead Sea · Asia
External reference (site language): We Bury the Dead ↗
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A traveller can swim in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Dead Sea within a single day's drive.
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Israel · Asia
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Everything closed at eleven and we ate hot corn soup and a boiled egg from a machine on a residential street. It was the least romantic meal of the trip and the one we still talk about.
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Osaka, Japan · Asia
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The walled Old City covers less than one square kilometre yet contains sites central to three world religions.
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Jerusalem · Asia
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The Cedars of God grove holds trees over a thousand years old, remnants of forests that supplied ancient Egypt and Phoenicia.
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Lebanon · Asia
External reference (site language): Flag of Lebanon ↗
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A local told us you can judge a country by its convenience stores. We ate egg sandwiches from a Tokyo konbini at midnight and understood immediately what she meant.
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Tokyo, Japan · Asia
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Before the war, Aleppo's covered market ran for roughly 13 kilometres of vaulted alleys, one of the largest in the world.
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Aleppo, Syria · Asia
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The petals came down with the rain and stuck to everything. Nobody left the park. People simply opened umbrellas over their picnic blankets and carried on.
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Tokyo, Japan · Asia
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Parts of the Saudi desert frontier remained undefined into the modern era because the sand simply had no landmarks.
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Saudi Arabia · Asia
External reference (site language): Saud of Saudi Arabia ↗
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The missed ferry. The stranger who handed over a key. The meal that ran until midnight. If something happened to you on the road and you still think about it, send it - a few sentences is plenty, and we do the tidying up.
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